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In this June 2, 2017, photo Zephrey Holloway's decorated mortarboard is displayed at Flathead High School's graduation in Kalispell, Mont. An administrator at the school prevented Holloway from wearing the mortarboard, painted by his grandmother, despite a new state law that allows Native American students to wear such regalia at special occasions. Principal Peter Fusaro issued an apology Monday, June 5, 2017, saying a school policy that disallowed graduates from using "tape, glitter, leis, bouquets or any other adornments" on caps and gowns was applied incorrectly. (Greg Lindstrom/Flathead Beacon via AP)
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In a May 25, 2017 photo, a Lincoln North Star student from Afghanistan holds a drawing she made at her therapist's office. Lincoln Public Schools has a new program to help refugee students deal with the trauma that made them flee their home countries. (Amber Baesler/The Journal-Star via AP)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2017 file photo, students leave the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, Wash., after a threat prompted a student alert and evacuation. Threats have prompted the small college in Washington state to cancel classes Monday, June 5, 2017, for the third consecutive weekday after protests on the progressive campus drew national attention. (Tony Overman/The Olympian via AP, File)
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Hundreds of students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, protested against the college administration and demanded change after weeks of brewing racial tension on campus. (Associated Press)
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Rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2017 file photo, an inside view of a decommissioned Clark County School District buses in the Northwest Bus Yard in Las Vegas. More than a dozen states are trying to take steps to keep kids in school longer, from making kindergarten mandatory to raising the legal dropout age, but it’s not an easy sell. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)
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Kansas House members negotiating with the Senate on education funding confer during a break in talks that led to a plan that both increases spending on public schools and raises income taxes to help pay for it, Sunday, June 4, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. They are Reps. Ed Trimmer, D-Winfield, from left, Larry Campbell, R-Olathe, the House team's leader, and Clay Aurand, R-Belleville. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Florida's Nicole DeWitt (23) steals second as Washington's Ali Aguilar (1) applies the tag in the first inning during the Women's College World Series softball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 4, 2017. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP) ia AP)
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Washington's Taran Alvelo (14) throws a pitch in the third inning during the Women's College World Series softball game against Florida in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 4, 2017. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP)/The Oklahoman via AP)
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Florida's Amanda Lorenz (18), Justine McLean (52) and Nicole DeWitt (23) celebrate a score in the second inning during the Women's College World Series softball game against Washington in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 4, 2017. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP)
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Florida's Delanie Gourley (33) throws a pitch in the third inning during the Women's College World Series softball game against Washington in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 4, 2017 (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP)
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In this April 12, 2016 photo provided by Dartmouth College, a completed climbing hold, left, lies alongside its casting mold in Hanover, N.H. The hold, created by using three-dimensional geometry, is part of a replica of a rock wall created by tracking a climber's hand and foot positions and by estimating the contact forces. (Emily Whiting/Dartmouth College via AP)
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This Jan. 16, 2016 photo provided by Dartmouth College shows fabricated holds mounted on a climbing wall in Hanover, N.H. The hold, created by using three-dimensional geometry, is part of a replica of a rock wall created by tracking a climber's hand and foot positions and by estimating the contact forces. (Christos Mousas/Dartmouth College via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JUNE 3-4 - This May 2017 photo, shows a computer monitor displaying a look at Scratch, a program the Beta Coders group from the University of Puget Sound use to tutor Lincoln High School students in Tacoma, Wash. (Brooke Thames/The News Tribune via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JUNE 3-4 - In this May 2017 photo, University of Puget Sound sophomore Jake Redman, left, assists Lincoln High School student Antony Vo at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. Redman is part of Beta Coders, a group from the University of Puget Sound that tutors Lincoln students. (Brooke Thames/The News Tribune via AP)
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In this May 26, 2017, photo, Jim Papacek unearths paving stones out of a patio in the backyard of his former home in south Fargo, N.D. Papacek lived in the home for nearly 50 years but eventually accepted a buyout from city officials who plan to demolish the home. Papacek, a former North Dakota Teacher of the Year, had help from students and faculty to save the home from several Red River floods. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
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Former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 2, 2017. Schultz and two other former school administrators are to be sentenced Friday on charges of child endangerment for failing to report a 2001 allegation about Jerry Sandusky to authorities in a child sex abuse scandal that first broke more than five years ago. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Illustration on changes to the Department of Education by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, after weeks of brewing racial tension on campus, hundreds of students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., protest against the college administration and demanded change. (Lisa Pemberton/The Olympian via AP) ** FILE **
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In this May 7, 2017, photo, Jen Johnson practices yoga while goats sit on her mat at Harrison Farm in Groveport, Ohio. The class integrates an outdoor environment with yoga practice, goats are allowed to wander during the class. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
